Elder Abuse and Neglect are Rampant Even While Concealed I am currently concerned by a friend who is a victim of elder abuse in her own home and it’s breaking my heart that she is refusing help from me, as well as from a “neutral” person. She insists that there’s…

Who Are You Taking Down With You? Sooner or later, almost every one of us will draw a line in the sand that sprouts a sign essentially saying, “This far, and no more!” Whether it’s a spiteful in-law, a vigilante neighbor, a bullying co-worker, or a sneering, upper-crust woman-chaser, we…

Maybe We Should Just Rent a Front Loader and Be Done With It. Most of us probably aren’t downsizing for the fun of it. We’ve been forced into this backbreaking, stressful hassle by employers who forced us out of our remote jobs, and who now are begging us to go…

Hello, I want to introduce myself. @shirleyannparker.medium.com I was born in a small town in the south of England. That is to say, in the UK. I was raised there until my Dad hauled the family up to his home city in Yorkshire when I was in my teens.

Yet Other People Won’t Help To my dying day, I will fight against those who inflict cruelty on others. It does not matter whether they have four legs or two. …

When The Ocean Lives, We Live One of the biggest heartaches for many people, myself included, has been the ongoing destruction of our environment. Yet there is hope! I’ll begin with a few words about destruction of our land before moving on to the massive pollution of our oceans. …

It Probably Isn’t Because We Can Fix A Problem Now and then every single one of us — man or woman — asks a question that we immediately regret asking. Oh, sheesh, I shouldn’t have said that? Even before the complete thought left our mouth, we suddenly realized with horror…

It Usually Isn’t If You Break Down Reasons Right now, I actually need to lure some major worms out of the woodwork, creatures that have been ignoring my requests and instructions. The easiest way is probably to start buying lottery tickets again. …

It Doesn’t Always Mean Exercise (This post is substantially updated, from both three years ago and due to the national chaos that continues to haunt us) Picture the Little Red Hen with someone else’s guilt trips on her head as well as her own! …